living on pins and needles

House of Flying Daggers

“I can play hardball as well as anybody. That’s what I did, cut people’s hearts out. On the other hand, I do it to cure them, to heal them, to make them better.”
Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader and a transplant surgeon.

Umm . . . let’s see. The Republicans already control the House, the Senate and the White House, and the Senate’s leader is prepared to “cut people’s hearts out” if he has to to advance his party’s conservative agenda? What would he do if he were actually presented with an obstacle?